Charleslangbein



(Model) A. v. 'BRQ-KHAHNE & 0Q LANG BEIN "ATTAGHABLE AND'DETAGHABLE BACK POR'RAZOR BLADES. N0. 3'77 .926. Patented'Feh, 14, 1888.

' Wmv m I of construction, following description UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

OF BROOKLYN, YORK; S ilD BROKHAHNE A'SSIGNOR TO SAID LANGBEIN;

ATTACHABLE AN'D D ETACHABL E BACK FOR SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent nol'sneze, dated r-b'mak 14, 1888.

'- Application filed April 6, 1887. Serial No. 233,818.- (ModeL) To all whom it may concern: v I v Be it known that we, ALFRED VICTOR BRoK-- HAHNE, of New York city, county and State of New York, and CHARLES LANGBEIN, of Brook lyn, Kings county, New York, have jointlyinvented certain new and useful "Improvements in Attach able and Detachable Backs for Razor- Blades, of which the following is aspecification. Our invention relates to detachable springbaeks primarilyintended for holding the blades of safety-razorseas, for example, such as that.

foriwhich Letters Patent were granted :to F. and O. F." Ka'mpfe, J one 15, 1880, No. 228,904;

but it is also applicable to the holding of a detaehableblade for razors for actualuse in shavmg. W

It consists, partly, in-the combination of a detachable audattachable spri ng-back for hold-v in g the blade of armor for stropping the same or for shaving with the same, and a tang attached to said spring-back and pivoted to a handle for conveniently holding the same while stropping or shaving.

It .further consists in the combination of a detachable or attachable spring-back for holding the blade of a razor while stropping the same or while shaving therewith, and a tang attached to said spring-back, the tang being provided with a slot, and a handle to which said tang is pivoted in said-slot, whereby in closing said detachable back'down upon or into the handle the length'of the handle may be made shorter without lessening its efiiciency. The invention also consists in certain details which will appear from the with reference to the drawings, in which- Figure l represents'the detachable back of' a razor with its tang pivotedsto a handle in such manner as to be closed down upon the same, as hereinafter described. Fig. 2 represents the detachable back, tang, and handle after the back has been closed down upon the handle; and Figs-3 and 4 represent themodification of the invention by the introduction ofthe slotted tang, whereby a much shorter handle is renderedavailabl'e; Fig. 5 isian end view of Fig. 2 at the end farthest from the j hinge, showing the back A overlapping the 5ohan'dleC.

. side,

represents the detachable spring-back,

the tang, and O the handle.

The back A "is formed with a cross-section, which may be said to .beytubnlarfwith a slot, a, cut through its as-sliown in Figs. lj and 5. forthereception of the blade of the razor, which is thrustinto the detachable and-att'aclr. able back A- from the outer end, 1), toward the tang, and is of such thigkness that the edges of the slot at will clamp fightlydown uponthe I. blade to hold it firmly in the clasp 'ol' the de:

.tachable and attachable back A when the blade is being siropped or used for shaving.

The handle Ode-preferably made o'f such- 4' thickness as to fill and lit easily the slot win the detachable backAwhen said back isclosed down upon the handle, as shown in Fig.2;but Y we do not limit ourselves to this construction,

as we reserve the right to close the detachable I back into the handle, after the manner of ordi nary razors, if we so elect.

When the'detachable back is closed. down upon the handle 0, asshown in Fig. 2, the

partseofsaid.back,whichjoin with easy curves Figs. 1,2,3, and 4, enter into a notch, d,'formed in the front of the handle, as also shown in'said figures. This the tang. B; as shown in notch will not be necessary if the back closes into the handle as above explained.

In order to be able t0 use a, much shorter o handle than is shown in Figs. 1 and2,the,tang

nay be slotted, as shown at f in Figs. 3 and 4.:

This enables the tang to he slid along the pivot I 1 g, in closing to take the position shown in, Fig.

4, the relative positions of the tang andhandlewhen open being. shown in Fig. 3.

This improvement supplies a small portable i and handy instrument for holding the blades of safety-razors in stropping the same "and '2 i I keeping them in order, which has hitherto been a desideratum in the useof suchrazors'; i

and, as above stated, it may also be used for holding the blade ofa razor for shaving when so desired.

Having thus described ourinvention,what we claim as new,..and desire to secure by Let-' 'ters Patent, is as follows: I

' 1. An'attaehableand detachablesprin'g-back a, for holdingfthe tangless having a socket,

entirelength on the inner This slot is blade of a razor'for stropping the same or for B, pivoted to the end of said handle, and hav- :0 use in shaving, and a tang, B, witha longiing a dovetailed socket-groove adapted to retudinal slot, f, therein, in combination with eeive a removable tanglees blade, substantially the handle 0, pivoted in said slot and adapted as and for the purpose set forth.

to fit in the socket of said spring-back when ALFRED VICTOR BRGKHAHNE.

the latter is closed down upon the said handle, CHARLES LANGBEIN. substantially as herein described. Witnesses:

2. The combination, with the short handle J NO. E. GAVIN,

O, of the spring-back A, having slotted tang V CHAS. Mi HIGG1'NS. 

